Applied nutritional psychology

Current projects

• Quality of life and daily challenges of people with coeliac disease
  (Coeliac disease; Ströbele-Benschop et al., 2024)

• Wishes for outpatient support services for lifestyle modification and weight management (WILMA)

• In the eye of the beholder: Investigating attention to front-of-package labels using eye-tracking technology (Eye-Tracking)
• Supermarket brochures - content analysis

Completed projects

Consumer attitudes towards animal welfare in food production

• Development and establishment of a value-added concept for unweaned calves from dairy cattle farming (EIP_AGRI)
• Consumer behavior and attitudes towards animal welfare-friendly milk production (WertKalb)

Eating behavior 

• Study on the eating behavior of professional drivers (in cooperation with Daimler AG)
  (Bschaden et al., 2021; Bschaden et al., 2019)
• Study on the influence of lighting conditions on meal consumption (Bschaden et al., 2020)
• Compliance with nutritional recommendations and eating habits of students at the University of Hohenheim (Ströbele-Benschop et al., 2018)
• Study on the influence of the type of video transmission on snack consumption (Dieze et al., 2017) 
• Experimental study on the influence of music on meal quantity (Kaiser et al., 2016)

      Sustainability and eating behavior

• Sustainability aspects and consumer behavior in (catering) gastronomy (Bschaden et al., 2024)
• Factors influencing consumers' environmentally friendly eating habits (Bschaden et al., 2022)
• What does our diet have to do with the climate? 

Shopping behavior 

• Investigation of the connection between shopping behavior and personality traits (Hummel et al., 2024)
• Recording the differences in visual attention during the presentation of food stimuli

The role of food characteristics and preparation order on food consumption

• Effect of different food characteristics on the evaluation of food (Bschaden et al., 2022)
• Investigation of the influence of the preparation sequence of different food components on consumption (Bschaden et al., 2019)

Prevalence of Orthorexia Nervosa

• Definition and diagnostic criteria for Orthorexia Nervosa (Donini et al., 2022)
• Orthorexia Nervosa: Study to survey the prevalence among US students (Chard et al., 2018)
• Orthorexia Nervosa: Study on prevalence among students of nutritional sciences and other subjects at the University of Hohenheim (Depa et al., 2016)